The latest edition of the World Health Statistics released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE).
The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012).
The 2024 report also highlights how the effects have been felt unequally across the world. The WHO regions for the Americas and South-East Asia were hit hardest, with life expectancy dropping by approximately 3 years and healthy life expectancy by 2.5 years between 2019 and 2021. In contrast, the Western Pacific Region was minimally affected during the first two years of the pandemic, with losses of less than 0.1 years in life expectancy and 0.2 years in healthy life expectancy.
only a decade
you are like a little baby. watch this
(long covid intensifies)
Ehh wouldn’t be my angle
Most humans I know who live past 70 are pretty miserable
The article includes healthy life expectancy, which also fell.
Oh no I just looked him up and he’s not great
I guess what I meant by this comment is that colonialism at western attitudes have advanced at such a quick rate that it’s truly better off to have lived when it was in its infancy (i.e. those colonialist attitudes that increased life expectancy at an alarming rate.
Like what’s the average life expectancy of chimps?
